<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Just some word massaging to the first paragraph for readability. I know lots of people put great thought into this and these are always so tricky to write, so see what you all think! <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif" class="">The Women of OpenStack (WOO) strive to increase the diversity of the OpenStack community by overcoming OpenStack's barrier to entry through educational sessions, professional networking, mentorship, social inclusion, and enhanced resource access. WOO recognizes that individuals in minority groups are more likely to have challenges accessing the resources it takes to learn and participate in complex technologies, which is why WOO welcomes all women and their allies who share an interest in OpenStack, open source, and adjacent technologies. </font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 9, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Amy Marrich <<a href="mailto:amy@demarco.com" class="">amy@demarco.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As discussed during our meeting on Monday we are planning to do a recruitment drive via email to the general OpenStack list as well as the Operators and Developers lists.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is the first draft of the email please feel free to make comments and mail back to the list so we can get the most feedback and the best results!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Did you know the Women of OpenStack isn't just for people who identify as female, but allies as well? Well now you do and we're looking for new members!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our mission statement is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",Arial,sans-serif" class="">The Women of OpenStack strive to lower the barrier of entry to OpenStack learning and use, intending to thereby increasing the overall diversity of the OpenStack community, recognizing that individuals in minority groups are more likely to have challenges accessing resources to learn complex technologies. Secondly, the Women of OpenStack provides a professional and social networking group for women, and their allies, with common interests in OpenStack, OpenSource, and associated technologies. These goals are achieved through leading and sponsorship of educational sessions and social events that promote inclusion in the OpenStack Community.</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We follow this mission by sponsoring ongoing Mentoring throughout the year and through the Speed Mentoring and Lunch and Learns which are held during summit as well as other activities through the year.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our Wiki page can be found here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Women_of_OpenStack" class="">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Women_of_OpenStack</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And you can join our mailing list here:</div><div class=""><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/women-of-openstack" class="">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/women-of-openstack</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And of course you can join us in Freenode IRC on the #openstack-women channel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Come sit in on a meeting and check us out! Meetings are held every other Monday with our next meeting scheduled for 08/21/17. You can join us with the following information:</div><div class=""><div id="gmail-magicdomid4" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif"><h3 style="margin:0px;padding:0px" class=""><span class="gmail-author-a-z69zz80z42fz78zbz70z3z73zz88zhz89zwz71z7" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font style="" size="2" class="">2000 UTC, 4 PM EDT, 3 PM CDT, 2 PM MDT, 1 PM PDT</font></span></h3></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid6" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif"><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px" class=""><span style="font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><font class=""><span class="gmail-b gmail-author-a-z69zz80z42fz78zbz70z3z73zz88zhz89zwz71z7" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px;line-height:1.5em"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px" class="">Dial In:</span></span><span class="gmail-author-a-z69zz80z42fz78zbz70z3z73zz88zhz89zwz71z7" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px;line-height:1.5em"> 1-203-277-8157 or </span><span class="gmail-b gmail-author-a-z69zz80z42fz78zbz70z3z73zz88zhz89zwz71z7 gmail-u" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px;line-height:1.5em"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px" class=""><u style="margin:0px;padding:0px" class="">866-619-0383 Participant: 7217256</u></span></span><span class="gmail-u gmail-author-a-z69zz80z42fz78zbz70z3z73zz88zhz89zwz71z7" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px;line-height:1.5em"><u style="margin:0px;padding:0px" class="">#</u></span><span class="gmail-author-a-z69zz80z42fz78zbz70z3z73zz88zhz89zwz71z7" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px;line-height:1.5em"> Leader 4018#</span></font></span></h4></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid7" class="gmail-" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif"><h3 style="margin:0px;padding:0px" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span class="gmail-author-a-z69zz80z42fz78zbz70z3z73zz88zhz89zwz71z7" style="margin:0px;padding:1px 0px;line-height:1.5em;font-weight:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font class="">webex -</font></span> <span class="gmail-url gmail-author-a-z69zz80z42fz78zbz70z3z73zz88zhz89zwz71z7" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 0px; line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="https://verizon2.webex.com/verizon2-en/e.php?MTID=m0e7ba518a2d4487bc0a78d00055f62e2" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">https://verizon2.webex.com/verizon2-en/e.php?MTID=m0e7ba518a2d4487bc0a78d00055f62e2</a></span></font></h3><div style="" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="" class="">And if you forget you'll get a reminder on the mailing list before hand!</div><div style="" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="" class="">Hope you join us!</div></div></div></div>
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